Building Safety Conference

With 25 years professional experience nationally and internationally, Amanda brings not for profit and private sector experience including working within a global charity championing consumer and public protection and national not-for-profit voluntary standard setting organisations for the built environment. These include the Considerate Constructors Scheme, Building a Safer Future Charter and now, in her current post leading the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI).

Amanda brings a wealth of expertise driving ethical business practice and championing consumer protection and has achieved substantial recognition for the CCPI including from Government, OPSS, the national construction product regulator, as well as key stakeholders such as Dame Judith Hackitt and the Industry Safety Steering Group and numerous industry associations and groups.

Clive Betts began his political career in 1973 and in 1976 was elected as a member of Sheffield City Council. He became Leader of the Council in 1987, having served on the Housing and Finance committees for several years. He remained on the Council until his election as Labour Member of Parliament for Sheffield Attercliffe from 1992 until 2010. From 2010 he was the Labour MP for the renamed Sheffield South East constituency and was re-elected in May 2015 and June 2017.

Clive was appointed a Government Whip in 1997 and held the post until 2001. In June 2010 he was elected as Chair of the Department for Communities and Local Government Select Committee and re-elected for a second and third term following the 2015 and 2017 General Elections.

Clive has been a key member on several Select Committees (Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Department for Communities and Local Government). His political interests include economic policy, local and regional government and housing. He was chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Arms Length Management Organisations, the All Party Football Group and was also chair of the Netherlands Group in Parliament and Joint Chair of the Somali and Somaliland APPG.

Clive can frequently be found in the stands at Sheffield Wednesday FC and is Captain of the UK Parliament football club.

Will heads the Regulator’s strategy function, including private finance, policy, registrations, new entrants, business intelligence and stakeholder relations. Recently he has been leading the development of the Regulator’s response to the Social Housing White Paper. A qualified chartered accountant, he has previously worked in corporate finance lead advisory, government audit and housing consultancy and is a non-executive director of The Housing Finance Corporation.

Petronila is qualified Projects Professional with key international experience in the implementation and delivery of large and complex projects and programmes of over £300 Million. This covering the full building lifecycle from development, construction, capital works to remediation and disposal. Petronila has worked in strategic advisory, mixed use, residential, commercial, retail, education, manufacturing, and public sectors. Currently, she is leading the building safety remediation team at Notting Hill Genesis(NHG) in the delivery of the NHG’s building safety programme. Petronila has developed an exceptional delivery team with a strong bias for action along with successfully establishing and implementing processes and procedures that have ensured building safety remediation has moved from a reactive part of the business to business as usual.

Jonathan joined Clarion’s Building Safety Systems Team in February 2024 and supports in the development of safety case reports, working in close partnership with colleagues across the organisation. Prior to that, he held a senior policy manager role in the Building Safety Programme, at the Department for Levelling-up, Housing and Communities (now the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government). This included leading the development of the assessment and management of building safety risks and safety case report duties in the Building Safety Act 2022 and associated regulations. He was part of the drafting team that produced the CLC golden thread guidance.

Neil Yeomans is the Head of Property Safety and Technology for Orbit. He leads a multi-award winning team and was himself awarded ‘influencer of the year’ by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) in 2020. The success of the team is based on a continuous improvement culture which focusses on safe systems that look beyond legal minimum compliance.  Neil has authored Orbit’s delivery Strategy to achieve the standards and culture spelled out in the new Building Safety Act and is notoriously happy to talk about Orbit’s progress and willingness to share good practice.  Neil has recently been appointed the Chair of the National Housing Federation’s Building Safety National Group, which seeks to help the housing sector to achieve the standards expected by the new Building Safety regime.

With 25 years professional experience nationally and internationally, Amanda brings not for profit and private sector experience including working within a global charity championing consumer and public protection and national not-for-profit voluntary standard setting organisations for the built environment. These include the Considerate Constructors Scheme, Building a Safer Future Charter and now, in her current post leading the Code for Construction Product Information (CCPI).

Amanda brings a wealth of expertise driving ethical business practice and championing consumer protection and has achieved substantial recognition for the CCPI including from Government, OPSS, the national construction product regulator, as well as key stakeholders such as Dame Judith Hackitt and the Industry Safety Steering Group and numerous industry associations and groups.